Companies Reminded To Submit Foreign Worker Quota Requests
By B2B Cambodia
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The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has recently issued an announcement which reminds owners or directors of enterprises and establishments falling under the scope of the Cambodian Labour Law to submit their annual quota requests for foreign labour to the Ministry between the 1 September and the end of November.
Foreign worker quota requests must be made online and in Khmer to the Foreign Workers Centralised Management System of the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training.
The directive comes with reference to Articles 261, 264 and 265 of the Cambodian Labour Law, Prakas No. 196 dated 20 August 2014 on Employment for Foreign National, and Prakas No. 352 dated 17 August 2016 on Using Online Foreign Labour Centralised Management System.
The quota request must be made in Khmer, and separately mention the current number of foreign workers and Cambodian workers at a company and include an attachment detailing the reason(s) for the need for foreigner workers. Owners and directors are expected to give priority to Cambodian workers when they need to recruit staff.
In considering quota requests, the Ministry of Labour generally allows the use of foreign workers. However, the percentage of foreign workers should not exceed 10% of the total number of Cambodian workers. This percentage is divided into three categories of employees:
- Office workers: 3%
- Skilled workers: 6%
- Non-Skilled worker: 1%